Results

Robert Fazekas of Hungary had initially finished first but was disqualified after being caught tampering with his drug test results.

Qualifying

To qualify automatically, athletes needed to throw 64.50 metres. As twelve athletes did not reach the automatic qualifying mark, those who did were joined in the final by the nine competitors who had thrown the next best distances to give a final line-up of twelve competitors.

Q denotes qualified for final automaticallyq denotes qualified for final as best losersNM denotes no distance recorded
medallists in bold
All distances shown are in metres.